Hello People,
Yes I know, two days in a row (notice my little rhyme there? huh?? Yes I'm quite pleased with myself). This is not a follow up on the trends or what I must-have, it's actually just a little thing I happened to read on twitter that I found ridiculous. You ready? OK here goes.. The state of Israel bought a twitter account from a user for a 6 figure sum. Really? I mean REALLY?!?!?!? According to The Guardian, Israel Meléndez set up his account with his first name @Israel in 2007, and created another account later on because he was avoiding his ex-girlfriend. He would check his account every now and then when he saw a message from the office of the Israeli PM, Binyamin Netenyahu, asking to buy it. Meléndez said that Twitter itself actually advised the Israeli government how to go on about it without it being considered illegal.
So Meléndez gave them his password on the phone, once it was confirmed that it worked, they gave him a check that ended with 5 zeros.
I have a feeling there will be many new accounts with countries for user names, after this piece of news.
Ciao for now!
Bambi
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